B92 Fund joins Museums of Conscience

B92 Fund was admitted to membership of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience. B92 CEO Veran Matic announced that the company cooperated with Municipality of New Belgrade and Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia to launch an initiative to build a Museum of Tolerance at the Old Fairground death camp site. B92 Fund joins Museums of Conscience Because of its history, the Old Fairground site is a critical location where a memorial educational complex should be placed in Serbia and in the Balkans. It would serve as memorial centre both for the events from the Second World War and the history of repression after the World War II, as well as memorial centre for the wars waged in the period from 1991-1999, where all interested in this can be introduced with the documents which encompass all the relevant facts related to these events in this dramatic period of time. The basic idea is that this center should serve primarily as big “cultural area” which will, in the same time, keep the image of an art colony, consisting of various sections devoted to different thematic units, such as: holocaust, genocide, tolerance, space architecture, and perhaps even the Museum of television, as the first TV program in Serbia was launched from that location. Moreover, there's no similar institution in the region treating the issue of television history, so this is another challenge for us. “We are pleased to welcome B92 Fund as an institutional member of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience,” said Liz Sevcenko, director of the Coalition. “The Initiative to launch Belgrade’s Museum of Tolerance is an important means to remember the consequences of intolerance in the past, and inspire ongoing dialogue and citizen engagement on how to confront intolerance today. The Belgrade Museum of Tolerance initiative entails the reconstruction of the buildings from the period when the concentration camp was situated there as well as the formation of a memorial centre as part of which the concentration camp would be reconstructed. In addition, a cultural-educational centre would be set up with the intention to inform the public about the world’s history of violence and intolerance through a program exchange. B92 has already started producing two documentary films about two different periods of the camp. Preparations are currently underway to film testimonies of the surviving Old Fairground camp prisoners. The Shoah Institute’s documentary archive, whose foundation was initiated by Steven Spielberg and Branko Lustig, is also being researched as it contains about 55,000 interviews with the surviving camp prisoners from all over the world. The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience is a worldwide network of “Sites of Conscience” historic sites specifically dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their contemporary legacies. B92 believes that the membership will speed up the realization of our project.

B92 Fund joins Museums of Conscience

Because of its history, the Old Fairground site is a critical location where a memorial educational complex should be placed in Serbia and in the Balkans. It would serve as memorial centre both for the events from the Second World War and the history of repression after the World War II, as well as memorial centre for the wars waged in the period from 1991-1999, where all interested in this can be introduced with the documents which encompass all the relevant facts related to these events in this dramatic period of time.

The basic idea is that this center should serve primarily as big “cultural area” which will, in the same time, keep the image of an art colony, consisting of various sections devoted to different thematic units, such as: holocaust, genocide, tolerance, space architecture, and perhaps even the Museum of television, as the first TV program in Serbia was launched from that location.

Moreover, there's no similar institution in the region treating the issue of television history, so this is another challenge for us.

“We are pleased to welcome B92 Fund as an institutional member of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience,” said Liz Sevcenko, director of the Coalition.

“The Initiative to launch Belgrade’s Museum of Tolerance is an important means to remember the consequences of intolerance in the past, and inspire ongoing dialogue and citizen engagement on how to confront intolerance today.

The Belgrade Museum of Tolerance initiative entails the reconstruction of the buildings from the period when the concentration camp was situated there as well as the formation of a memorial centre as part of which the concentration camp would be reconstructed.

In addition, a cultural-educational centre would be set up with the intention to inform the public about the world’s history of violence and intolerance through a program exchange.

B92 has already started producing two documentary films about two different periods of the camp. Preparations are currently underway to film testimonies of the surviving Old Fairground camp prisoners.

The Shoah Institute’s documentary archive, whose foundation was initiated by Steven Spielberg and Branko Lustig, is also being researched as it contains about 55,000 interviews with the surviving camp prisoners from all over the world.

The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience is a worldwide network of “Sites of Conscience” historic sites specifically dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their contemporary legacies.

B92 believes that the membership will speed up the realization of our project.